The Sun. — London, England, 1826-08-31 00:00:00

;~~`"~~ C/ ~''l'? ... AMIRALTYrOPPIcE, AUG. 24, 1826. - THE : Lords CoTimissioners of Adtniralty hav ing rmurid, au accurate Survey of the SHOALS called the LEMAN and OWER to be made, this is to give notice that the said Survey proves that the position of these Shoals has beeu hi therto most erroneously laid down, and as it .is of great import ghee*, the navigation of the North Sea that its real position should be generally known, a Lithographic Chart of the Shoals, with an aecoMpanying book of remarks, has been printed at the Admiralty-Office, and may he had of the Cliartseller4. Prices fur the Chart One Shilling, for the Remarks Sixpence. J. W. CROKER: VICTUALLING-OFFICE, Ana. 19, 1826. THE Commissioners for Victualling His Majesty's NAM do hereby give notice, that there will be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. JOHN BATTEN, at the Sun Tavern, at Chatham, in the County of Kent, on FRIDAY, the Bth day of September next, at Twelve o'Clock, All that valuable and extensive Estate, situate and being in the Parish of Chatham and St. Nicholas, within the liberty awl pre eincts of the City of Rochester, used by the Commissioners for Victualling His Majesty's Navy, as a Victualling Office aruhEstablishment, consisting of a capital Messuage or Dwell jag -house, with the ,(iardens and Appurtenances thereunto be longing, in the occupation of Henry. Stokee, Esq., the resident Agent Victualler, and also the several Storehouses, Outbuildings, Offices, Sheds, and other erections; now standing and being there on, together with the use of the Wharf and Lauding Place ad joining the River Medway, and extending for. upwards of three hundred feet along the same. Also a piece of Salitnarsh Land adjoining.' westward, called the Tigh, containing about three acres, with the several buildings and erections thereon. The above Estate is held under, anti by virtue of several Leases made and granted to the Commissioners for terms of years which will expire ou or about the Qd April, .1829, at several rents amounting to 210/. per annum,. and subject to the several Co venants, Provisoes, and Agreements therein expressed and con tained. N. B. The Copra isioners reserve for the Public Service dur ing the remainder of the terms, the WaterTank,with the Mill,Pipes, Fituomts, and Apparatus thereto belonging, situate, lying, and being between the entrance gates of the Yard and the Wharf above-mentioned, with liberty to work the same for the supply of Water to His Majesty's Ships, as will be mentioned in the Partieu- , ' lar and Conditions of Sale. And also 'reserve for the use of the Agent Victualler the Messuage or Dwelling-house with the Yard, Gardens, and Appurtenances, now in his private occupation, until Lady Day, 1827, he paying all Taxes for the same. The Estate may be viewed at any time between the hours of Eisht and Six o n application to Mr. Stokes, op the premises (who will show a plan of the same) or to Mr. Batten, Auctioneer, St. Margaret's Bank, Rochester ; and printed Particulars may be had of them, and Messrs. Knight and Jones, No. 2, St. James's "Ogre, London, and Messrs. Jefferys and Parkin, Chatham._ M. WALLER CLIFTON. CONTRACTS for .SUPPLYING PROVISIONS, for CON VICTS on BOARD. HULKS. London, August 29, 1826. SUCII Persons as may be desirous of Contracting with the Superintendent of Convicts, to supply BREAD, MEAT, CHEESE, BARLEY, OATMEAL, SALT, and "ER, for Cthwiets On board the Hulks it Portsmouth, Ply mouth, Woolwich, Sheerness, and Chatham, may receive Parti culars of the Contracts on applying to the Superintendent of Convicts, No. lb, Lambeth-terrace, and, on , hoard the several Hulks; and deliver -their Tenders at the Commissariat Office, Treasury Chambers, sealed up and directed to the' Superintendent of Convicts, marking thereon " Tender to furnish Supplies for C 9 nvicts," on or before Tuesday, the 12th September, but none Will be received after Twelve o'Clock on that Day ; nor will any proposal be noticed unless made on or annexed to a printed Par ti(!tilar, and the prices inserted in words at length ; nor unless a Inter he subjoined to such proposal, signed by Two PersOns of ~k4 o wn property, engaging to become bound with the party ten "ring. in the sum expressed in the particulars, for the due per-. "nuance of the Contract. FOREI(114 LOTTERIES, PRIVATE LOTTERIES, LITTLE GOES, and RAFFLES. Lottery Office, Somerset-place, July 19, 18t6. LOTTERIES being finally to cease on the 18th ,Day, of October next, Notice is hereby given, that the against the Sale, or advertizing for Sale, of Foreign Lottery Li eILO!, and of any Lottery Tickets not authorized by Parliament, 41 ui against Little Goes and Private Lotteries, will be strictly enforced e, It is requeste d that the outstanding Prises may be brought in '"T Payment with the least possible delay, that the Lottery Ac conuts may be closed. Numbers of Tickets and Shares may be registered, and their fates may be ascertained by application at this Office. L. HESSE.. BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL MALL. rrHE GALLERY Continues open, with the COLLECTION of PICTURES from CARLTON PA LACE, which HIS MAJESTY bee been graciously pleased to allow the Directors to Exhibit. Admittance (from Ten till Six), Is.---Catalogue, is WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper. THE ARMY. Detachments belonging to the Itla Regiment of Dragoon ° lintla' and the 12th, 22d, and 33d Regiments of Infantry, marched yesterday morning, from Westminster for Bristol, on l'oute to Ireland. A Detachment belonging to the 69th Regiment of Foot march- Yesterday morning, from Westminster for Plymouth. Detachments of recruits arrived in town yesterday morning, froth Liverpool and Bristol, on route to join their respective Corps 4314 Depots. A Detachment of recruits arrived in town yesterday morning, Canal boat, at Paddington, from Coventry, on route to join t n . respective Corps and Depots. • EAST INDIA SHIPPING. sailed „, • , Pine Patience, Kind, from the Mauritius, ha arrived of Dover; NM the Mauritius foth of April,' and the Cape 2lst May h erd . Th e (4 isherine Boag, from the Cape, o ff Rye, for Am am. :l b Vans' ittart (whaler), from the South S eas , o ff R ye . 4 at Grecian, from Liverpool, which arrived at Bombay on the Lath of April, experienced a heavy gale for f our d a y s o ff the Mau ritius, and lot all her sails, sprung both insets, and made some water. 'll e Promise had sailed fur Tellicherry. The Exemiuth Aqui Pyramu s were on the coast. Four personri of,the names of Murray, Waite, Zay7 der, and Collolly, in the employ of MeSsrs. Broadwood) forte manufacturers, agreed on Tuesday morning to take a boat Inc the purpose of going to Mel-mond the tide not , se e h rving conveniently, they proceeded to stimul i e day at Deptford. On returning limn e uiou o t f t 0 1 e: t o t ::: n d f o c r . 1) k e r a o ouse tempting to pass through the centre arch were. upoet,,when two of them, Murray and Waite, met with a watery . grave. The former hid been recently married; the latter has left a wife and three children to deli/ore untim e ly fate. isayd er b e i ng a good swimmer, saved th e lif e of Conolly,hy , al. lowing him to cling round 'his loins, for a considisable distance, until they were picked up by two watermen, near the Southwark bridge, in a completely. exhausted state, though without expe riencing any material injury.. The two that are drowned never Nee after the boat was upset.: Their bodies have Imo: yet been f ound. This is another instance of the rashness, (after the num 1-411efis accidents that have occurred), of inexperienced persons wantonly risking their lives. DUEL.-- The FATA L fie principals i n the affair near liirkeehly, the fatal termination of which we mentioned in our last, Were, George Morgan, jun., Esq.,,banker iu Kirkcaldy, and 1)44 1 Landale, Esq., tanner there. The parties flirt on Wed lien lay Mandl* at six o'clock, in Cardon Den, on the estate of Itaitli, the former attended by W. Millie, Esq., and the latter by ;ii!uten ao e ma ne , R,N, Two medical gentle:Filen were also pre rht• Itiving taken their ground, at the usual distance, they i; r , hen Mr. Morgan received his •adversary'a the left b realt i and instantly expired. His liody was brought to his own ouse about au hour after. Mr. Latithile and his second have, we underNtand, 'left Kirkcaldy. 'Precognition* were taken thir ea,he day'' and us the causes which led to this melanch o l y ren (cciir: become the subject of legal investigation, we mast tinne curgrentig publicity t o the statements which are in the m ean . We have anthority from the friends of the sun. , - .ate) that measui:es 'are taken tO bring forward his - trial 4 4 : e 'u'lY us the fur lIIN h im Conic will admit of. Mr. Landale 44 %t readily pr esent se lf b e f ore a jury of his country so ROM tero- ( l"appeint e d temporary absence briug only in "‘ 'to avoid unnecessary confateulent..-.47dinburgh Observer. 0.... ., 7 „ ... ..., ,.. . . , , ~„ F! ,, t` c, ..1 . 4 'l M , ''' ,. 'it • -----__.-- - No. 10,599. LITERATURE. TIIE CLUB.—A SERIES of ESSAYS, originally publiahed in the MANCHESTER IRlS.—Mancheager. pp. 191. The rise of periodical literature occasioned an un precedented sensation throughout Eneand. Before the days of Steele, Addison, and Budgell, the only ac cessible knowledge was through the medium of elabo rate quartos ;and we have ourselves seen in the Read ing Room of the British Museum, a goodly folio, de scriptive of London life and manners, by one Donovan, a schoolmaster of Ipswich, which, in our present im proved state would bp barely sufficient to form the staple of two respectable Essays for the Literary Gazette.' But from the period of the first appearance of the Spectator (a penny paper, published twice, and occasionally three times a week, somewhere about the year 1708), periodical literature has never once retro gaded or become extinct ; as we will here briefly show in summing up the different works of this class that have since been spawned upon the Public." On the demise of the Spectator, which died after an unusually notorious existence, the Taller, conducted by Steele, took its place, and by many—ourselves among the number—has been preferred to its predecessor from its superior versatility of style, and its closer and more eloquent criticisms. The knowledge of life perhaps in both instances was equal. " The Guardian," a dull formal periodical, conducted by Pope—the most pros ing of all prose-writers, and the most jesuitical of Correspondents, Swift himself not excepted—suc-j ceeded to the Taller, but was remarkable for nothing but one solitary impressive tale, called ' Th e Santon Barsisa," from which Lewis took his plot of the Monk; and one exquisite piece of irony contributed by Pope himself on the subject of his own and Phil lips's Pastorals. On the decease of Nestor lronside, a nom-de-guerre for the Editor, a weekly paper enti tled the " Alchymist," conducted by the son of Eus tace Budgell, struggled into existence, but was in a few months eclipsed by Dr. Johnson's Rambler---a pompous but brilliant periodical, which, had it pos sessed nothing better than the magnificent tale of the " ten days entertainment by Sultan Memnon," would have one down to remotest posterity. This was succeeded by Hawkesworth's Adventurer, a palpable but ingenious imitation of the Rambler ; and this again by the Idler, the most familiar and spirited of all Dr. Johnson's prose-compoSitions. By the bye, we will just pause a moment to request Geoffrey Crayon, when he next sketches the portrait of a Cock ney in the country, to draw from personal observation, and not from the 2d volume of the Idler--verbum sap. On the demise of this last, a host of minor pe riodicals took the field, among the best of which we may notice en passant the " Observer," by CuMber land ; the " World," by Chesterfield ; the " Connois seur," by Bonnell Thornton ; the " Citizen of the World," by Goldsmith ; the " Lounger," and his still more exquisite " Mirror," by Mackenzie, which last 1119 been deservedly admired tui the finest specimen o f the elegant but familiar style that has appeared since the days of Addison. Its knowledge of life, indeed, if we except the individual touches of' character in "`Umphraville" and " Caustic," was any thing but profound ; but then its tenderness and beauty of sentiment—amounting almost to the effeminate —amply redeemed all defects. In saying this we of course allude to " Louisa Venoni" and " La Roche," which every one remembers. The demise of the Mirror brings us down to the times of Godwin, 'a writer of a totally different stamp from an, that had ever preceded him, who about the year 1790, put forth a periodical paper, entitled the ".Enquirer ; in which he broached a variety of ingenious metaphysical speculations, drawn wholesale from Helvetius, and thus converted this branch of literature into a channel as yet unexplored. Of course we' need not say that his , 4 Enquirer" found no " enquirers" in the public ; it was in fact a bad vehicle for communicating philo- 1 sophy, being far too flimsy and fugitive in its nature ; so its talented author was compelled, however re luctantly, to discontinue it. From this period, 1790, down to the year 1814, a partial interregnuin occurs in periodical literature : the . times, indeed, were too much absorbed in politics to devote the requisite atten tion to the belles lettres ' • but even s u p posing t hi s were not the leading caus e o f its decay, what public encou ragement could there possibly have been for a writer who knew human nature, and could sketch human character, when such a besotted whining driveller as Hayley was the Magnus Apollo of his day : the one paramount idol, whose applause was fame, whose condemnation destruction ? Yet that such was the case ; that such an egregious coxcomb was actually once at the head of English literature, and ruled it with almost unprecedented despotism ; the annals of the day attest, and more especially the posthumous correspondence of Gibbon, who reckoned so highly on the sanction of a name like Hayley's for his history, that he positively postponed the pub lication, until the author of " The Triumphs of Temper" had condescended to recommend it with an ode. But we return to our subject.. It was in the year of 1815 . or 16 (we are not quite cer tain which) that the very name of a periodical paper, in which the same endless sketches of monotonous life and character were du repeated, began to nauseate the publi c m i n d ; an d hence it was provided with a dos e o f a diff erent description in the shape of Biackivood's Magazine. This spirited periodical, the undoubted descendant of the good old Tatters and literature w hich Spectators, but qualified to suit the prejudices, literary and moral, of the day; took at once the exalted rank in Unikih u ra v ville' i s c of the form e r Is .l3' ff Nestor Ironsides, it has since so ably sustained. In lieu (mine quad, odi , it ; n e e rs n ta in s, oddities aS gave us orig ina l Christopher North, Doctor black, "et hoc genus Scott, Tim ( , t admirably sketched cockney of the Hihlands), and O'Dolierty. above all, of our own friend, the con vivial`Phis astcharac te r we boldly put forward as the bea u 'd • de Coverley is • and am )18 s Western _ f Congreve's Sir TN g oo - d i En , glish joy—Sir Roger brains) ; but O'Dolierty i s Witwood (despite his lack of a concent 'We acco r dingly recomm • m r end hi as a model for all ation of them all. future periodical essayists A s h ould have been lad to have seen a sma ll portion of hi s spirit—his intellect a n-.„ g '—hi s s good humour—and t rue transferred t o th e p ages o f " the Club Lueish heartiness— ; a name, the very THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1826. mention of which is replete with jovial associations. But unfortunately this little book, though,diversified in.point of style—and a true representative besides of the old periodicals—is, but too deficient in humour. Only conceive, a party of young fellows with rich intellects and high animal spirits (as their publication proves them to possess) setting out in their first 'chapter with an acknowledgment, " that none of their club exceed two glasses, and that few take more than one."— Heavens, what a confession ! We ourselves are no tipplers, but would be bound every night of our lives to discuss at least four tumblers of good whisky punch, and feel all the better for it in point of intellect. In deed, we hold it as a sound moral axiom that no. one can do much in the way of literature who hold's a cheering glass in abominatio n , It VMS this spirit that enabled Blackstone, (see his own confession) to conclude his. commentaries ; th a t ga ve. us Rabelais's immortal " Voyage to the Holy Bottle ;" and above all, enriched us with a Folstajfiuld a Dalgetty. In dependently of this distressing failure, " the Club" has every claim on public attention. Its chief charac teristics appear to be a sound moral sense, united with a vigorous judgment ; it professes to give few sketches from life, but those few are good, and make us wish for more, particularly the &Bowing of a widower, which we extract for the annisementof our Readers : " Our friend the widower is particularly fund of sailing, and, if he had an opporttinity, would, it is believed, spend all his days upon the water. Referring to his favourite amusement, he often regrets that Manchester is not a sea-port. When he goes to Liver pool, on business, which he sometimes has occasion to do, be usually delays his return rather longer thin is necessary, in order to pass some time upon the Channel; and another member, who accompanied him thither in autumn, assures us, that as soon as they reached the sea-side our friend wasgreeted as an old customer by most of the boatmen. " A boat is, in our friend's opinion, the finest place in the world for study. He often tells us, that if fortune smile upon him, and he becrnne independent in his pecuniary affairs, be will have in his garden a large pond, upon which there shall be a pleasure-boat, with a canopy over it, like the canopies of the Algerine vessels, which be saw in the panorama of the bombardment of Algiers. " He sometimes takes a walk in an afternoon to Barton, merely for the purpose of sailing back in the packet. Being a man of a lively and sociable disposition, and one who soon forms an acquaint. mice among strangers, be has often something to tell us respect • ing the conversations which take place on these occasions." The subjoined remarks on reviewing, will bear us out in our opinion that the Essays of the Club" are distinguished by a mild unprejudiced arid clear judgment : " A good review is certainly an interesting, and, in some cases, a useful production. It has a tendency to improve the taste of general reader., and to enable them to estimate truly the beauties and blemishes of our beet authors. It gives a reader a tolerably good idea of the work under examination, and enables him not only to determine whether it is deserving of perusal, but also to know, beforehand, which passages in it require his most particu lar attention. In no country has the art of reviewing, which is now so much abused, been carried to greater perfection than in our own. The critical essays of Addison and Johnson, not to mention others, are certainly some of the finest specimens ever produced, of this species of writing. m As we entertain a very favourable opinion of the art of cri ticism, we have witnessed, with sorrow, its frequent prostitution and debasement. We shall not generally find in our periodical Reviews, a just and able estimate of a new publication. The periodical works of the present 'day are, most of them, mere vv. hides for the promulgation of party principle.; and hence, we need only be acquainted with an author's religious or political tenets in order to know whether he will be extolled or depreciated in a particular review. How rarely, fur example, does the Edin burgh Review bestow commendation on an advocate of the Mi nistry, or the Quarterly do justice to the works of an opposition writer! When did the Monthly Magazine find any thing to ad mire'in the productions of an evangelical divine, or the Methodist Magazine in those of a freethinker? Many of our periodical reviewers are the mere instruments of party. They make a trade of the art, and eulogize or defame an author, not so much accord ing to the dictates of their own judgment as the direction of their employers. Of these perso;is it may literally be said, that they exist by the destruction of other people's reputation." In concluding this rambling sketch, we would ad vise the contributors to the " Club" to put a little more spirit and less exhortation into their periodical. There is plenty of good sense abroad in the world, and though this be an essential, it is certainly not the sole desideratum in literature. Let them then, as their judgment seems sufficiently matured, draw a little upon their fancy, and the result (quickened by, a few tumblers of divine Glasgow punch) will be a work destined to endure, when the writers themselves shall have long since passed away and been forgotten. A CHOICE.--The actors tell a great many odd stories of a late provincial manager. Among others. we have heard the following anecdote attributed tti him :—He was one night playing Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals, at a sea port, when, in the middle of the quarrel scene with Caeain Absolute, he espied a sailor in the gallery, enjoying himself with the fume of sublime tobacco. The manager, wh o lly forgetful of Sheridan, walked to the foot-lights, " with head erect" and outstretched arm, exclaiming—‘ , My fine fellow, one of you must go out ; either you or your pipe—settie it between you." The honest tar, taking the hint, extinguished his pipe, and the manager was again Sir Anthony Absolute. CHARACTER OF DR. PARR BY HIMSELF.— From my youth upward to the, present m oment , I never deserted a private friend, nor violated a p u bli c principle—l have been the slave of no patron and the drudge of no party—l formed my political opinions without the smallest regard, and have acted upon them with an utter disregard to personal em o l uments an d profession a l honours—for many, and the best years of existence, I en d ure d ver y irksome toil, and " suffered" very galli ng " need,"—measuring my resources by my wants, I mow SO . " abound " as to unite a competent income with an independent spirit—and, above all, looking back to this life, and onward to another, I possess that inward " peace of mind, which the world can neither give nor take away. Character of thc. late Charles James Fox, p. 307. verysbu• riacveibanerniewritoorpriesorzerio, cganotr Philip the l an d death l o io r ru t: of the Royal Navy, wh o was f ou nd hanging on Saturday morn ing to Ids bed-post in his room, at Dover, quits dead. Am In quest was held on the body at the Druid's Read, befor e John Finnis, P.N. Mayor and Coroner, and on the examination of se veral highly respectable persons who knew him, a nd had wi tnesse d for some time put the' delusions . under which h e was labouring, particularly Mr. Chalk, w h o h a d b ee n his me di cal attendant, the Jury without the slightest hesitation returned a verdict of In sanity. The deceased bad received a very sever e wound before Copenhagen, in the action under Lord Nelson, in 1801, an d an other in that under Lord Exmouth, before Algiers; and was for the courage and bravery he displayed in the last action, advanced to the rank of - Command er •h e was hi g hl y respecte d, and his death is much regretted. Gantt, . , rtmik\. ; 11 ° - •., , Vt„,i s v, 11 W 14 Pt 1 ) -• • 4., s _ o l , —......,.... , el q` ....4,, - * * , • . ' U. - -Z .: ~., '• ~ r . 4 . (14 . , -- t . , '. ' .. j ' k \ i',:to . :l- "''' '''.74', •,... 21Y ~,, ~ t , ,•- y.„ IWZ ) 4%4% PR ICE 7D. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. Yesterday a meeting of the Shareholders in the Gene ral Steam Navigation Company was held at the City of Londqn Tavern. The Report stated, that from numerous difficulties, it had been found requisite to defer giving any account of the state of the Company's property, until next year.— They said it would. be now requisite to make a further call of 80,000/.pone instalment of 31. per share to be paid in October, and the remainder as circumstances might require. Mr. D. W. HARVEY said, that the Sharjholders could not but have heard with astonishment, not to say indigna tion, the announcement that there was to be a further call of 80,0001. It was in contravention of their deed of set tlement, which bound the Directors not to enter into en gagements, or make any call, for any sum exceeding 20 - 0,000/. without previously submitting their proceedings to a General Meeting of the Proprietors, and obtained their consent. He then entered into a long argument upon the idea which was entertained by some persons of selling the property, and putting an end to the Company. He treated such an intention as absurd. He represented the advantage to be derived from steam-vessels, both to the Public and to the Company, to be of the higheat cha racter, if it were properly managed. In order,as he stated, to restore the Company to a healthy state, he moved that a Board of Confront should be appointed to investigate its concerns, and superintend its proceedings, in conjunc tion with the Board of Directors. Mr. HALL, one of the Managing Directors, admitted that the 80,0001., for which the additional call was re commended, was to meet demands to satisfy engagements which the Directors had incurred in behalf of the Com pany. One Proprietor moved as an amendment, that a Com mittee of Proprietors be appointed to investigate the ac counts of the Company. It was stated by SirEDWARD BANKS, and others of the Directors, that it was impossible to make up an account of the state of their property without great loss and inconve nience. Most of their vessels were abroad—one was at Gibraltar, another was at Hamburg)]. Mr. BOIVRING agreed in the proposition for establishing a Board of Controul. The several amendments were then put and negatived. Mr. Harvey's motion for the formation of a Board of Controul was carried by a large majority. Mr. HARVEY proposed Sir Edward Banks as one of the Board. The appointment of the five Directors was then put and carried ; and, on the motion of one of the Directors, Mr. Harvethimself was appointed as one of the Board. Sir EDWARD BANKS said, that the appointment of this Board was just what he wanted to see. He declared that under its management he might almost guarantee the Pro prietors 16 per cent. for the next year. It was then moved the report should he received. It was recommended that a dividend should be declared of 51. per share. The motion was warmly opposed, but was ultimately carried. SURVEY of the WEST COAST of AFRICA (mom AN OFFICER ON BOARD THE BARRACOUTA.) AtitlusT 27, 1820.-24 send you tbe'following particu lars, trusting they will he acceptable ,:-- In the vicinity of Azores ' his Majesty's ship Dia4end, in June hist, on her passagefrom Rio sle Janeiro to Lisbon, with Sir C. Stuart, the British Minister at the Brazilian Court, on board, fell in with the water-logged tiinher-ship, Frances Mary, the particulars of which vessel, with the detail of the severe sufferings experienced by her original crew, until relieved by Lord Byron, in the Blonde frigate, are already before the public. The Diamond observed this ship close to her at day light, and immediately sent a boat on board, which found she was abandoned, and rifled of almost every thing move able, with the exception of her cargo, which remained un touched; even her chain plates had been unbelted, and the figure on her head sawn off, and carried away. The bow and stern-raft ports were out, and the sea made a perfect breach through the vessel, covering the cabin deck and lower beams; a multitude of fishes, chiefly bonetta, were in possession, and large shoals of them attended her, for the • sake of substances, adhering to her bottom. • • It was the opinion of Lord Napier, who commanded the Diamond, that the Frances Mary might be dragged into port, either at Lisbon, or one of the islands, by the frigate, without ninth. delay, and for this purpose she was taken into tow; but the wind continuing very light, and the Diamond making but little way with her burthen, he ultimately acquiesced in the wishes of Sir Chicle a Stuart, who urged the abandonment of the ship, on account of the haste be was in to reach Lisbon. In consequence, four officers, with a cutter's crew (who were all volunteers), were put on board the wreck, having with them one of the ship's boats, and two months' provisions. The Diamond cast her off at S. 30. p. m. an the 27th, and parted company the same night; this was in latitude 37. 4. North, and longitude 22. 36. West, or about 120 miles East of the Island of St. Mary. The party found part of the bowsprit, the main and main-top mast, standing; her other masts were gone; .the main topsail yard remained across, with part of the sail attached to it ; the main yard had been taken away. When the intention of Lord Napier was made known on hoard the Diamond, respecting the putting a party on board this vessel, there was a general desire to share in the enterprise, which was considered to have a degree of danger, as well as novelty, attached to it : and all the young gentlemen, in particular, were emulous to be among the chosen. , Mr. Brown, the second master of the Dia mond, with Messrs. Airey, Oldham, and Mitford, (mid shipmen), were detached on this service, and we can con gratulate their friends upon. their safe arrival at St. Mary's, in high health and spirits. Buoyed up by the quantity of timber on board, which consisted of pine logs and plank, there was no material risk, so long as the ship should hold together; but as she ' was nearly un manageable, and afforded no accommodation below from the weather, their situation was not the most desirable; to obviate, however, this latter inconvenience, they built themselves a place of shelter on deck with plank from ,the cargo. But the ship having lost her rudder, the chief attention was turned to the formation of a new one , or a machine of some kind, by which she might be steered. The party : set about this work w i th a lac r i ty a n d d e t ermination which soon prepareds little way that could be giv en to a ship so circumstanced, the rudder was not of so mu c h service 'as had been antici pated ; e v ery atd shipped ; owing, however, July i t wadi difficulty, and by the I s t of to the ve r y n evertheless, with the help of th e sail; it 'lbdd. was ma de to, answer in a tolerable degree; . in steering by the wind it was decidedly serviceable : its chief defect in le was its uselessness as an agent in performing any evolution , f which neither it, nor any. plan that could be devised, vt:sr found to succeed; and frequently when, after many -''' ~i otirs endeavour to get the vessel upon the opposite t b e en abandoned as impracticable, she would, tack , 1 wou of herself, come up in the wind, and pay off , a s desired, without any mechanical assistance.l Tice quantity of lee-way or drift amounted in general to four points, but this angle increased with the wind and agitation of the sea*; badness of Ivesdher, hqwever, was experienced in a very light degree, to which circumstance, and the fixed direction of the wind in the eastern quarter, may be attributed the vessel's arrival so early as it was, seeing that human ingenuity could prevail but little with such a log. The possession of this ship to the Company of the Diamond will be inconsiderable ; but a benefit has been performed to navigation by ber removal from the high sea, lying so much as she was in the track between Europe, those islands; and America. Some unfortunate navigator 'would very likely hare stumbled on board her during the darkness of night, and the concussion would probably have been no less fatal than if she had fallen upon the Formigas. Her position in the usual track of ships return iiii from the southward and westward may be demonstrated by the number she actually encountered. As before observed, she hadbeen pillaged, and deprived of almost every thing portable ; and this„ in all probability, had not been merely the work of one or two vessels, but of several, which fell in with her during the interval that transpired between she Blond and Diamond coming across her. From :he time the latter frigate left her, until her arrival at St. Mary's, they spoke or saw the following :—On June 28, the Blossom, from Rio de Janeiro to Trieste; July 11, saw one sail at' a distance; July 12, saw a sail, but did not speak her; July 15, fell in with and spoke a Ham burgher, 'mend to Havannah ; July 16, met with, and had intercourse with the American ship Tea Plaid, from Ha vanuah, bound to Cadiz, who liberally supplied them with many things very serviceable in their situation. On the 13th of July, the Island of St. Mary was in sight; but their progress towards it was excessively slow, owing to the ex treme lightness of the win& July 21, the cutter was dispatch ed to St. Mary's to gain information; she retie ned the 23d, and was again sent to close with the offerof island vas sal to tow them to St. Mary's; ibp, ,cpqr,„ hack in the evening with this assistance, and the fallowing day retitled the anchorage of St. Mary's, where, she was % moored in security. On the 31st July, Mr. Aveiry was sent across to St. Michael's in order to procure advice, information, and assistance from the Consul. His Majesty's sloop Barracouta, on her passage from Sierra Leone to Spithead, put into St. Michael's on the " 3d of August, in order to recruit her water, which service being completed, she proceeded to St. Mary's, with the Deputy Consul and Mr. A,veiry on' board, with an inten tion of carrying the party to England, provided it was their wish, and consigning the ship to the care of the Consul. Mr. Brown, however, was adverse to a surrender of his charge, until he had obtained the most profitable terms which could be expected at St. Michael's ; the party seemed•also to consider it a point of honour to see this object effected. In consequence of these wishes, the Bar racouta left the Island, and made the best of her way homeward. On the Bth of August, St. Michael and St. Mary still in sight, we discovered a schooner-rigged vessel, whose motions appeared to be extraordinarily indecisive • we edged towards, and clos e d h e r in the afternoon, and indecisive; she was the Flora, of London, bound to Gibraltar and Malaga, Alexander Christie, Commander, who, being questioned as to his business among these Islands, as. signed as a reason, his having to land a passenger at Sr. Mary's ; but the Commander 's and passengers' account of their , proceedings and intentions appeared so equivocal and contradictory, that it gave reason to surmise some thing more was intended than it was thought prudent to reveal. This passenger, to land whom the vessel had been conducted at least seven hundred miles out of her proper track, was in figure, costume, and general appear ance, the exact counterpart of one of those gentry who may be' seen daily in the vicinity of the Exchange, vend. ing oranges, &c. dirty, ragged, and rascally. • The Barraeouta completed the survey of the coast of West Africa on the 22 of April last, at the foOt of the Cameroon Mountain. She left the Island of Fernando Po on the 80th of April ; Sierra Leone, the 13th of June ; Porte Prays St. Jago, the 7th of July; and St. Michael's, the sth of August. The cruisers were all out from Sierra Leone, and slave vessels were very frequently brought in 4 moderate, but increasing ciegree of sickness, prevailed in. the Colony, but it was c - y confined to the troops. ELOPEMENT AND SINGULAR RECO VERY OF PROPERTY. About three weeks ago, the proprietor of a highly re spectable tavern in the city of London, having been in the country for a few days, was thunderstruck upon learning at his return that his wife had eloped with a young man, taking with her cash to the amount of 5004 It seems that during the late general election, the house alluded to was made a place of meeting for the •committee of a candi date fora borough in a north-east county, and the teakd can didate being well provided with the good things of this world, desired that no ex t ience might be spared, and that his constituents resident in London might be treated in the most liberal manner possible. This was done, and in the end the tavern hill, amounted to 5004 In due time the candidate gave a check for the amount of the demand, and at that very period, • unfortunately for the master of the house ' he was front hom e , an d t he or d er fell into the hands of his wife, and there is too much rea son to fear that she had for some time formed a deter mination to elope, and that she only waited for a favourable opportunity; for immediately upon getting' possession of the check, she went to the banking-house upon which it was drawn and obtained the amount of 5004 in Bank notes, with which she absconded. The, landlord of the tavern, upon discovering the elopement of his wife, Arid the fact that she had received the election-bill and taken the amount with her, applied at Bow-street office for assistance, and Salmon, one of the principal officers, was desired by Sir R. I3irnie to use his best endeavours to discover the retreat of the faithless woman, and if possible, to procure the restoration of the money to the husbend. Salmon made inquiries, and succeeded so far as to learn that it was probable the wife had gone to Prance with .her paramour. He Nvrote , to the coast of Prance to ascer tain, if possible, • whether that was the fact or not ; and by return f post received a communication front a person at Boulogne, informing him .that the lady was then there, and that else had test deposited 4001. out. of 500/. at a banking-house in. that place. Salmon, knowing that he could depend upon this information. waited upon the bushiend, and the latter at once agreed company ir arrival ulogne, it .14814 sal mon oco t til e Nvis d nie' ads a s ftvioo' i n s dP c i r : i at b rinif e l aec l d t o ce , t : l l yi t e u l e v t e er oO t ir h r : lni t a e :t cr4 t r ilit l e l i aan t l ts e ur t ion which lady, after placing the money, as she thought securely, had left, Boulogne for Dover, intendinti, t n iu a fern t y t s h; pßubefloicreaultiletorrietiteustnal B ou l ogne, e w , i n i 7at l l v e as ap w p e li i c i et k ; l or le t ;w t r o l the British Consul there, and to other official pereants, and furnished with letters from them, and with the document, which he took with him from England, le, went to the banking-house, Auld in a very short time, ebtained the re stitution of the whole sum of 400/. He could with equal ease have restored the wife ,to her husband, hut the latter had no great inclination for a re-union, and having got se cure possession of 4004 resolved to come quietly home; and without The waiting for his wife, he and Salmon took a comfortable voyage to London, by the steam-packet, wife returned to Boulogile, but found that the greater pa rt of her ill- got t en mon ey wIL 4 g""; and that ah*,.. reserve had no ei to Subsist upon beyond the residue of the 10w out .of the 500/. which she had taketi.ae Ttls .LA T R, Moth En.— he pool woman who was so ferociously stabbed by her husband Burt last week, is 11"' pronounced out of Wmger. H er case bas excited much sympathy, and we are happy to say that the subscription set on foot for her by Mr. Savage, h es been warmly entered into, and has been the means o f aftbrding her relief and comfort in her melancholy situation, of which she must otherwise have been totally destitute.-.Brietton Gazette,